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by PresidentOso
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 04:04 AM PDT
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I have a couple of social-media stories that I’m tracking. To avoid producing a low quality, click-through diary, I’m going to compile a few of them into a ‘roundup’ of the week: 1. Brazil vs X: X has decided to comply with the Brazilian court order to...
by AChris
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 11:45 AM PDT
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by PresidentOso
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 03:48 AM PDT
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Many of you may have read about a recent tragedy where a mad man killed six people with a knife in Australia, thank goodness he didn't have a gun, if you haven't read about then there are details here www.theguardian.com/… What has this to do with...
by The Greenmantle
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 09:21 AM PDT
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. erroneously contends President Joe Biden is more of a threat to U.S. democracy than former President Donald Trump, a notion political experts find to be “preposterous” and “absurd” Former President Donald J. Trump has declined to...
by frankfaiola
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 08:32 PM PDT
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The reposts and expressions of shock from public figures followed quickly after a user who uses a pseudonym on the social platform X claimed that a government website had revealed “skyrocketing” rates of voters registering without a photo ID in three...
by Associated Press
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 07:53 AM PDT
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As of 4:35 this morning, Truth Social is Trump’s attempt to clone a Twitter-like social media platform. Newsweek has not heard any correspondence of when they expect to be up again. But last night, the social media site had a major outage, leaving...
by Pakalolo
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 05:09 AM PDT
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While I agree with the bipartisan House and White House consensus that having TikTok owned by a company that, by law, must share its information with the Chinese Communist Party is a national security threat, there’s a larger part of the issue — which...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 08:15 AM PDT
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by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 02:50 PM PDT
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The tl-dr For the headline tl-dr above the fold if skimming this Diary, there’s been a serious and dangerous misunderstanding fuelling the proposed TikTok ban in the House panel (a lot of Dem votes) already costing us dearly, just when we have...
by Tweedledee5
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:30 PM PDT
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[The reason for the picture above is that I wrote this exact same article below more than 8 years ago, with the same title above, except that I wrote “November 9th” in the original. This was originally posted on October 15th, 2016, as a revision to...
by David B
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 10:38 AM PST
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There have been several posts here at Daily Kos on Trump’s attempts to cheat his partners and rake in big bucks by selling his twitter clone Truth Social to another company. IMHO, Kevin Drum cuts to the chase in simple language that’s worth a look:...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 05:27 PM PST
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There’s plenty of reason to continue keeping some places but with the many options for the left, what are your favorites? I’m still open to better ‘federated’ option(s). I am on a variety of platforms; Discord, Mastodon, Post, Tribel, Bluesky, threads,...
by annieli
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 04:39 AM PST
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Five years after being banned on Twitter, Elon Musk re-instated Alex Jones on X in Dec 2023. Within three days the odious racist and conspiracy theorist accumulated over 800,000 followers. Recall that Alex Jones had played a critical role in hyping...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 11:50 PM PDT
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For those who choose to leave Xitter, I advise you should NOT delete your account, especially if you have a unique user ID. The point here is that if you delete your Xitter account, you give Elmo the gift of a new and perhaps valuable user ID to reuse....
by jtg
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 01:40 PM PST
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I was active on Twitter/X for many years. Five or six weeks ago I deleted my account. Just couldn’t support Putin Propagandist MAGA Elmo Fucking Musk anymore. He ruined the experience for me anyway. Truth is I miss it. It feels like I just ended some...
by Sarge in Seattle
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 11:18 AM PST
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As the above screen shot indicates, Twitter has suspended Yulia Navalnaya's account. CNBC reports that an enquiry as to why the account has been suspended triggered an automated reply: “Busy now, please check back later.” What the Hell? Update 1: As...
by Rashaverak
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 05:34 AM PST
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Top tech executives appeared in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday as a part of a hearing titled “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis.” Senators asked questions of the CEOs of Meta (the parent company of...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 01:25 PM PST
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Elon Musk's social media platform X has blocked some searches for Taylor Swift as pornographic deepfake images of the singer have circulated online. Attempts to search for her name without quote marks on the site Monday resulted in an error message and...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 02:19 PM PST
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Pro-Tip: Often when someone posts a screenshot from social media, they leave out the date the original post was posted. If you are making and posting screenshots, please include the date. If you are using someone else’s posted screenshot, oh well…...
by jtg
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on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 05:50 PM PST
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